Transcriptome profiling of sexual maturation and mating in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata.

Sexual maturation and mating in insects are generally accompanied by major physiological and behavioural changes. Many of these changes are related to the need to locate a mate and subsequently, in the case of females, to switch from mate searching to oviposition behaviour. The prodigious reproducti...

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Main Authors: Ludvik M Gomulski, George Dimopoulos, Zhiyong Xi, Francesca Scolari, Paolo Gabrieli, Paolo Siciliano, Anthony R Clarke, Anna R Malacrida, Giuliano Gasperi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3267753?pdf=render